| Pro-Life World Coming to the Defense of Luxembourg Monarch's Stand against Euthanasia The US-based Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) has announced they will be launching a legal challenge to a new law in Luxembourg legalizing euthanasia. Last week, the world was shocked when the parliament of the tiny but venerable European state of Luxembourg proposed to strip its head of state, the Grand Duke Henri, of his veto powers when the latter announced he would refuse to give royal assent to the law. The ADF, a network of Christian attorneys, announced today that attorneys were standing ready to offer pro bono legal assistance to physicians willing to bring suit regarding the constitutionality of the law. ADF Legal Counsel Roger Kiska, who is based in Europe, said, "Everyone deserves a chance to recover. The proposed legislation does not allow for that, and we believe it is unconstitutional." |
December 12, 2008
Pro-Life World Coming to the Defense of Luxembourg
UK Government Refusing to Release Stats
| UK Government Refusing to Release Eugenic Abortion Stats The Information Commissioner, a U.K. government body that promotes access to official information and protects personal information, has accused the Health Ministry of refusing to obey an order to release the numbers of eugenic "terminations" in the UK. "Ground E" of the UK's 1967 Abortion Act allows an abortion on request up to full gestation of children suspected of having a "severe" disability. The Health Ministry has refused to release the information, however, claiming that to do so would endanger the privacy of mothers and abortionists. In the past the numbers on eugenic abortions from the Health Ministry revealed that children were being killed in the womb for "severe" disabilities that were in fact as mild as club foot or cleft palate, a revelation that caused a public backlash against such eugenic abortions. |
Asking Illinois Supreme Court to remove Governor
| Suit to be filed Friday before Illinois Supreme Court to remove Governor Frustrated by the lack of direct action on the part of state legislative leadership, two private Illinois citizens said Friday they will be filing a petition before the Illinois Supreme Court to temporarily remove Governor Rod Blagojevich from office. "Attorney General Lisa Madigan has been bringing up the possibility of removing the governor from office based on Illinois Supreme Court's Rule 382, which allows the court to move quicker than any other recourse," petitioner John Bambenek of Champaign told Illinois Review today. "Illinois can't wait for months for the Governor to step down, we have too many crucial issues before us to wait." "The standards for incapacity are very broad. We're saying he's unable to fulfill his duty to appoint someone to fill the U.S. Senate seat, since Senate Majority leader Harry Reid refuses to accept his appointment," Bambenek said. "He's also unable to function politically, because he's been caught on tape compromising his office. We're also stating in the petition that Attorney General Madigan has a potential conflict of interest, as she has stated her own interest in running for governor in the future." http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/12/breaking-news-s.html |
Pro-life laws a ‘moral imperative’
| Pro-life laws a 'moral imperative' Bishop Thomas Wenski of the Diocese of Orlando, Florida has written an essay reaffirming that Catholic support for legal protections for the unborn child is a "moral imperative." His essay also warns that the proposed federal act FOCA could endanger even minor abortion restrictions. Bishop Wenski began his essay in The Ledger by congratulating President-Elect Barack Obama, saying his election could signify a welcome "repudiation of racism." He noted that had the nineteenth century Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision ruling, which considered if African-Americans were property and "somehow less than persons under law," remained in effect Obama could never have been elected. |
The Same Rights As Newborn
| Afford Unborn The Same Rights As Newborn If your child asks you, "Daddy, can I kill it?" you dare not answer until you know what "it" is. One pivotal question continues to receive little attention in the abortion debate: Just what is it that we are aborting? We often hear, "No one knows when life begins." But even if this was correct, it does nothing to advance the argument in favor of abortion rights. If we don't know what "it" is, we must protect "it." http://www.argusleader.com/article/20081201/VOICES09/812010311/1057/COLUMNISTS |